Alert: Monkeying Around in Lopburi Can Be Dangerous!!!!!

Made the trip to Lopburi and had a great time. Stayed at a decent hotel and even found the only farang place in the city owned by an 88 year old man from Belgian! The good times, however, are for another thread and another time.

I just wanted to post this as warning to all members that have kids to be careful in the city of Lopburi. We had went to the ruins that have hundreds of monkeys running around. They were pretty calm and I got some decent pictures. Suddenly, several of them got irritated with some farangs and several jumped on some of the tourists. A farang child and my wife were bitten and had to go the clinic.

My missus had a monkey jump on her and bite her pretty bad. It esulted in a trip to the clinic for tetanus and rabies shots.

It seems to be very common. As soon as she was bit, a samlor driver approached and offered to take us to the clinic. A couple of blocks away we found about 4 clinics in a row with signs for rabies shots. The doc said in the high season there is a steady stream of farangs in and out of her office that have been bitten.

Pretty pricey as well - 1500 baht. I am not sure, but believe they had a two tier pricing system. She also has to have 4 more rabies shots.

Two tier pricing? They raped you
My son got bitten by a monkey at Golden Beach a few years ago, took him to the government hospital, he had to have about 10 stitches between the 2 wounds, tetnus and I think 6 rabies shots over a period of a month? Whole lot came to less than 3,000baht and that was with the first few days with them cleaning the wounds.